In other news, regedit.exe doesn't work on Linux either.
Hey, Reality Master -- virtually all commonly-used types of programs, with the exception of games, are available for Linux. For most business use, where games aren't much of an issue, it makes a perfectly good substitute. The examples you picked are rather weak.
I have about 4 of them sitting in a box -- however, they have a weird connector (large, 5 pins in a half circle -- I thought that they were the AT-style connectors, but I tried the AT -> PS/2 connector I had sitting around and it didn't fit.) Any suggestions where I could find an adaptor for them?
If you're using ext3, you could always remount it as ext2 in order to run shred. Not practical to do it for each deletion, but if you only want to shred the occasional file, it's an option. (I don't know if there's a way to do something similar for other journaled filesystems.)
I liked Lain -- but "deep"? Come on. It's pretty much by-the-book cyberpunk stuff. It's got a few interesting ideas, but nothing that made me say "wow" when I was done.
BUT, my favorite thing about the series was the artwork. If Van Gogh had done anime, I'm sure that Lain would have been the result. If you enjoy the artistic aspect of anime, you ought to check it out.
The problem is that the moderation system hasn't been improved or updated in years. There's nothing wrong with getting something wrong, Taco, but you ought to fix it when the flaws are pointed out to you.
For starters, eliminating over/underrated (or at least passing them to M2), and making moderators accountable (let people see who has been moderating their posts) would be appreciated.
(I really wish they'd inform users WHY submissions were rejected; even if only a one-word description, like "duplicate", "absurd", "false", "flamebait", etc.)
What gives you the idea that they would reject a story for any of those reasons? That sounds like a description of the front page to me.
Maybe it's just me, but I don't think that makes much sense. If you don't like registration required links, then why not stop linking to the NYT? Is there some sort of business relationship, or is it just a matter of not feeling strongly enough about required registration to stop linking to a large potential source of stories?
Well, it's even funnier when the previous story had a registration required link in it. Makes you wonder it michael pays any attention to Slashdot at all.
For those who are curious, I believe that this is the story in question. (And no, no registration required.)
Could the speculation please be saved for the comments page? The blurb for the article is about 1/3 informative, and 2/3 wild speculation about how it's an evil attempt to shut down used music stores (even though the article said nothing about it.)
At least the first two don't work if your keyboard is nonfunctional. (If X is broken, the keyboard and video are usually both out to lunch.) The magic key isn't usually compiled into the kernel. (Quoth the kernel help, "Don't say Y unless you really know what this hack does.")
- Documentation on how to get cable/DSL modems working. Perhaps a desktop utility (program) too.
Don't you just type the relevant information provided by the cable company into your distribution's networking options? Though it would have been nice if there was an easy way to enable NAT -- I seem to remember that being a pain.
- Swap files. They work. People don't have a lot of RAM (well, geeks do, but most home owners have 64 or 128 MB). But they like pictures and video, so let's swap out some of their 20GB hard drives.
I can't remember the last time that an installer didn't at least recommend making a swap partition.
- Some blue screen type of application to let them know when their video drivers are corrupted or something bad happens.
I agree here. Most people are using X, and so if you have a kernel panic or something else bad happen, you don't see anything. Also, if X locks up (usually due to buggy graphics drivers), I often have to telnet in to kill off X and restart it... why can't I do that from my own console?
(Someone suggested that I set up my reset button to kill X... not a bad idea, although it's still a hack. I really ought to figure out how to do that.)
- 24 hour free tech support via phone or on-site service for $0.99/minute. People need to learn Linux. Most aren't born with command line powers gifted from God.
- Record hardware configurations and errors that occur (ala "TalkBack" in Mozilla). Users can then call in to 1-800-LNX- HELP or whatever and get some assistance based on their computer's unique ID number.
Tech support costs money -- lots of it. "Linux" isn't a corporation that can pay for it. The distributions, however, can. (And I'm fairly sure that they do.)
If, and only If, one method was so wonderfully better than all the others, everyone would be using it.
Well, being honest -- if one package manager was so much better than the others, all of the competing package managers would try to clone that one. Natural selection doesn't seem to be working particularly well among open source programs. (How many things pop up in one version of Gnome/KDE that is copied by the next version of the competing desktop?)
However, any modern distribution is pretty consistent by itself; the whole inconsistency argument has been weak for quite some time. If you install everything from source, then you'll have to deal with it, but those who pop in the CD, install everything they want, and then go have a nicely working system.
The cost of the computers is factored into students' annual room-and- board expenses
I should have reread the article, as I skipped over this. (Stupid, stupid, aardvarkjoe.) So it's not as horrible as I imagined... although the laptops are still being subsidized by those who live in the dormitories, but have their own computers (or otherwise just don't want the iBook...), so the point still stands.
Although I didn't see anything in the article about it, the money for these things has to come from somewhere... and that eventually comes down to higher tuition. Not only that, but only a subset of the students get the computers -- I would be willing to bet that the cost is subsidized by all the students. Why can't they just let students buy their own computers (possibly through a school program) rather than raising prices so that they can "give" everyone a school-authorized laptop?
Don't start spouting off about freedom in the middle of a technical discussion. Changing the subject because you don't like how the discussion is going isn't a very good way of argumentation.
Out of curiosity -- are there any digital media specifically designed for centuries of storage? (In reality, as long as the specs for whatever reader are kept, we can always build another one.) I'm pretty sure that standard CDs, tapes, etc. don't last more than a few decades if you're lucky.
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In other news, regedit.exe doesn't work on Linux either.
Hey, Reality Master -- virtually all commonly-used types of programs, with the exception of games, are available for Linux. For most business use, where games aren't much of an issue, it makes a perfectly good substitute. The examples you picked are rather weak.
Lucky. They always told us that we weren't supposed to lick the spoon.
I have about 4 of them sitting in a box -- however, they have a weird connector (large, 5 pins in a half circle -- I thought that they were the AT-style connectors, but I tried the AT -> PS/2 connector I had sitting around and it didn't fit.) Any suggestions where I could find an adaptor for them?
If you're using ext3, you could always remount it as ext2 in order to run shred. Not practical to do it for each deletion, but if you only want to shred the occasional file, it's an option. (I don't know if there's a way to do something similar for other journaled filesystems.)
Short, fat, only has one ball?
...the current Linux kernel will morph into something that is not dissimilar to The Hurd.
So you're saying that Linux is evolving towards being a half-finished toy?
I liked Lain -- but "deep"? Come on. It's pretty much by-the-book cyberpunk stuff. It's got a few interesting ideas, but nothing that made me say "wow" when I was done.
BUT, my favorite thing about the series was the artwork. If Van Gogh had done anime, I'm sure that Lain would have been the result. If you enjoy the artistic aspect of anime, you ought to check it out.
The problem is that the moderation system hasn't been improved or updated in years. There's nothing wrong with getting something wrong, Taco, but you ought to fix it when the flaws are pointed out to you.
For starters, eliminating over/underrated (or at least passing them to M2), and making moderators accountable (let people see who has been moderating their posts) would be appreciated.
I guess. It didn't do anything for me.
(I really wish they'd inform users WHY submissions were rejected; even if only a one-word description, like "duplicate", "absurd", "false", "flamebait", etc.)
What gives you the idea that they would reject a story for any of those reasons? That sounds like a description of the front page to me.
Maybe it's just me, but I don't think that makes much sense. If you don't like registration required links, then why not stop linking to the NYT? Is there some sort of business relationship, or is it just a matter of not feeling strongly enough about required registration to stop linking to a large potential source of stories?
Huh. well, I take that back. It let me in, but when I tried to reload, it told me that I need to register. Sorry.
Well, it's even funnier when the previous story had a registration required link in it. Makes you wonder it michael pays any attention to Slashdot at all.
For those who are curious, I believe that this is the story in question. (And no, no registration required.)
Could the speculation please be saved for the comments page? The blurb for the article is about 1/3 informative, and 2/3 wild speculation about how it's an evil attempt to shut down used music stores (even though the article said nothing about it.)
HTH.
At least the first two don't work if your keyboard is nonfunctional. (If X is broken, the keyboard and video are usually both out to lunch.) The magic key isn't usually compiled into the kernel. (Quoth the kernel help, "Don't say Y unless you really know what this hack does.")
- Documentation on how to get cable/DSL modems working. Perhaps a desktop utility (program) too.
... why can't I do that from my own console?
... not a bad idea, although it's still a hack. I really ought to figure out how to do that.)
Don't you just type the relevant information provided by the cable company into your distribution's networking options? Though it would have been nice if there was an easy way to enable NAT -- I seem to remember that being a pain.
- Swap files. They work. People don't have a lot of RAM (well, geeks do, but most home owners have 64 or 128 MB). But they like pictures and video, so let's swap out some of their 20GB hard drives.
I can't remember the last time that an installer didn't at least recommend making a swap partition.
- Some blue screen type of application to let them know when their video drivers are corrupted or something bad happens.
I agree here. Most people are using X, and so if you have a kernel panic or something else bad happen, you don't see anything. Also, if X locks up (usually due to buggy graphics drivers), I often have to telnet in to kill off X and restart it
(Someone suggested that I set up my reset button to kill X
- 24 hour free tech support via phone or on-site service for $0.99/minute. People need to learn Linux. Most aren't born with command line powers gifted from God.
- Record hardware configurations and errors that occur (ala "TalkBack" in Mozilla). Users can then call in to 1-800-LNX- HELP or whatever and get some assistance based on their computer's unique ID number.
Tech support costs money -- lots of it. "Linux" isn't a corporation that can pay for it. The distributions, however, can. (And I'm fairly sure that they do.)
If, and only If, one method was so wonderfully better than all the others, everyone would be using it.
Well, being honest -- if one package manager was so much better than the others, all of the competing package managers would try to clone that one. Natural selection doesn't seem to be working particularly well among open source programs. (How many things pop up in one version of Gnome/KDE that is copied by the next version of the competing desktop?)
However, any modern distribution is pretty consistent by itself; the whole inconsistency argument has been weak for quite some time. If you install everything from source, then you'll have to deal with it, but those who pop in the CD, install everything they want, and then go have a nicely working system.
I should have reread the article, as I skipped over this. (Stupid, stupid, aardvarkjoe.) So it's not as horrible as I imagined
Although I didn't see anything in the article about it, the money for these things has to come from somewhere ... and that eventually comes down to higher tuition. Not only that, but only a subset of the students get the computers -- I would be willing to bet that the cost is subsidized by all the students. Why can't they just let students buy their own computers (possibly through a school program) rather than raising prices so that they can "give" everyone a school-authorized laptop?
Don't start spouting off about freedom in the middle of a technical discussion. Changing the subject because you don't like how the discussion is going isn't a very good way of argumentation.
I just turned on my experimental firstpostmaking machine!!
Apparently, it doesn't work so hot.
Games? We just do drivers around here, I'm afraid.
Though Nethack looks nice enough on my GF.
Out of curiosity -- are there any digital media specifically designed for centuries of storage? (In reality, as long as the specs for whatever reader are kept, we can always build another one.) I'm pretty sure that standard CDs, tapes, etc. don't last more than a few decades if you're lucky.
I think you screwed up. That should be a +1.